Michel Legrand Orchestra - Laura - Featuring Nana Mouskouri

Misty and shimmering ~ a memorable 1940s mood and atmosphere melody from Hollywood's great years courtesy composer David Raksin. The song shows up on Legrand's 20 Songs from the 20th Century.Alto saxist Bud Shank is among the orchestra .Frank Sinatra did a famous Gordon Jenkins take in the late 1950s Flip a coin choose your favourite Laura from hundreds A different tack for hard chaws U tube still amazes with rare stuff coming on stream Years ago I had an MGM 10 inch vinyl from the Acquaviva Orchestra.Familiar name ? Don't worry ~ it was only album I came across touting Acquaviva monikler Song in question and most liked on the album That's All a Sinatra song which seems to have nose dived. Album was circa 1954 hence somewhat derivative arrangement ~ in style of so many even Sid Feller and Richard Jones two Jackie Gleason 1950s arrangers . Sid Feller did a great album with Nancy Wilson in the mid 60s Broadway my Way with Nancy in stellar form and especially on paid up swingers such as I had a Ball . Richard Jones was an excellent strings writer under his own name on !950s Capitol label. It's funny but the rest of the classical music world was up to its oxters divining the way forward what music would sound like at the end of the 20th century Surprise even more conservative than at the beginning .~ All those pioneering Schoenberg scores Five Pieces for Orchestra etc still a great listen but nowadays not gracing music concert programmes . Worse luck Audiences need a good Schoenberg boot to lift them out of their middleclass mediocrity With or without austere Arnold Schoenberg some were also shelling out money for likes ofJackie Gleason Orchestra and enjoying the music. Lo Acquaviva's That's All already mentioned is ensconced on U Tube complete with footage of a contemporaneous 1950s miniature record player.

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